Question for people who own both PS3 and 360

Also comes down to how many frinds of mine have what console if I want to play online.strayzilla

thats the biggest factor to me

Thats a big factor for me as well. I only know 1 person that owns a PS3 as to the many I know that own a 360. Since all of my friends own a 360 its the system I went with since I'm a big online player. Especially since some of the recent shooters have such a wide spectrum of gamers playing that in matchmaking, you never play the same gamer twice. Its nice to have consistencey.

I own a PS3 and plan on buying a 360 in the next few months. my question is for those who own both - when buying a mutli-platform game, how do you decide which console to buy for? For games like COD4 or sports games, how do you decide whether tobuy the PS3 version or the 360 version?r8dersfan

First, check the reviews to see which version is better.

Second, find out which version my friends are going to buy so I can play them online. Because of this, I generally go with the 360 version.

You decide on a case-by-case basis. If one version has a superior frame rate, or something else that's better than the other version, get that one. Usually reviews will point this out for you.

You also want to consider which version your friends have if you would like to play with them online.

For me...

1.) Framerate/slowdown/bugs etc that one version has and one doesn't. If both are equal, go to step 2.

2.) Does one version have extra content. Case in point, Stranglehold for the PS3 has Hard Boiled on it, while GTA IV for the 360 will have extra content.

3.) I tend to like the 360 versions if the games are the EXACT same due to the achievement system. Seriously, think about it. Look at Assassin's Creed for instance. Yes, both game systems have the same thing, but who is gonna run around and find many numerous flags without some sort of reward in game or otherwise. While a trivial thing, gamerscore encourages gamers to go and see and do more things than the wouldn't normally. Some games give rewards IN game with extra weapons and or endings, but that's becoming a dying trait. So this adds a lot of weight to the 360 version of a game for me...

4.) However, not due to cost, but due to issues with networking on campus in my housing, I'm not going to pay 50$ a month for outside cable internet plus 50$ dollars a year for Xbox Live if I can get most multiplayer games I want on the PSN for free. Now granted, the consolidated Xbox Live Friend's and matchmaking stuff is much better, and I'd love to play Gears and Halo online, but I just can't so I live with that. But when it boils down to it, recently I purchased COD4 for my PS3 so I could play online after completing the single player mode.

It's usually a decision between 3 and 4 for me, since 1 and 2 don't pop up that much.

After comparing scores, plusses and minuses for each platform, etc. I generally choose based on the genre.

If it's a FPS, I get it on PC or PS3 because those (in my opinion) have the best control schemes; PC is responsive, and PS3 is symmetrical.

Most other stuff I prefer on other consoles because the controller is better suited for platformers, racing, etc.

Hope that helped. :)

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In general if it is a game that involves the d-pad and face buttons of a controller more than the shoulder buttons, I get the PS3 version, and if it is shoulder button intensive I get the 360 version. In other words I get fighting games, driving games and 3rd person action games on the PS3 and shooters on the 360.

I don't care much for the new R2 and L2 buttons on the PS3, and I've always hated the Xbox's d-pad and face buttons. They are all stiff and unresponsive in my opinion.rragnaar

The d-pad on the 360 controller is a Greek tragedy. It's like seeing a massive roach crawling up the side of a wedding cake. I think Microsoft crafted quite possibly the finest conventional controller these hands have ever touched, but that d-pad..... man, it's just bad in new and previously unimaginable ways. It literally kills games like Pac Man CE or Street Fighter, and Ultimate Mortal Kombat was nigh unplayable with the thing.

I have no idea why Microsoft hasn't revised that bloody thing. In my opinion, that thing is every bit as much of a blackeye as the shoddyreliability issues the 360 has had.

But that out of the way, I've bought 100% of multiplatform games on the 360. I even bought Virtua Fighter for it last week, in spite of the aforementioned horror of a d-pad. I'm just going to have to buy a stick, because the online play means that fighters are actually relevant to me again.

I dunno, I've never liked fighters. The only strategy involved is pressing the right button combinations, plus (with the exception of SSBM, my first,greatest and onlyGC game) it's rather overdone. Mortal Kombat is waaay too bloody.

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